Ryan Sit

Journalist

New York, NY

Ryan Sit is an award-winning journalist, production coordinator at Inside Edition and former Staff Writer for the New York Daily news. He's a breaking news reporter who's written extensively on law enforcement, the criminal justice system and politics. His original reporting led to the demotion of several top officials in New York City in 2016. His breaking news coverage of Akai Gurley's killing contributed to the later conviction of NYPD Officer Peter Liang.

Ryan Sit

Journalist

New York, NY

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Sean Bell's father struggles to understand son's death 10 years later
In the 10 years since her fiancé, Sean Bell, was killed by cops just hours before their wedding, the days have either flown by or crept along at a near standstill. When she is with her daughters, at the park or supervising sleepovers, she blinks and the weeks whiz by. But if she watches the news or logs in on Facebook, or walks down the street that bears Bell’s name, the clock doesn’t move at all.
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EXCLUSIVE: ACS caseworker who had evidence of Zymere Perkins abuse closed his file because she got promoted
The caseworker assigned to probe abuse allegations involving little Zymere Perkins closed the case because she was more interested in getting a promotion, sources told the Daily News. Child protective specialist Nitza Sutton, 48, closed Zymere’s case after just 12 days this past April — even though she took photos of injuries on the child’s body, according to child welfare sources who saw the boy’s file, several sources said.
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EXCLUSIVE: Zymere Perkins' abuse caseworker was subject of phony-reports probe — but still got promoted
A city child welfare worker involved in the tragic case of 6-year-old Zymere Perkins was once the subject of an official misconduct investigation, sources told the Daily News. Nitza Sutton, 48, came under scrutiny after a manager suspected her of falsifying statements in a case report, sources said.
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Cancer-stricken man from Wisconsin got to cross an item off his bucket list thanks to newly promoted NYPD captain
A dying Wisconsin man and his wife came to Times Square last New Year's Eve in hopes of scratching off a bucket list item: watch the ball drop at the stroke of midnight. Roger Higgenbottom was 48 when he went to the doctor for a routine physical. But the results were not routine. He had prostate cancer.
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Mets fans along the 7 line display their anger at cutout of Dodgers’ Chase Utley; ‘I wanna kick him right in the nuts’
Mets shortstop Ruben Tejada won’t need surgery on the broken leg he suffered during Chase Utley’s takeout “slide,” which is more than I can say for the cardboard cutout of the despised Dodger I chaperoned to Citi Field. With Utley cowering in the safety of the Los Angeles dugout after being scratched from the Game 3 lineup, the Daily News decided to let vengeful Mets fans take their frustration out on the next best thing — a life-sized, two-dimensional poster board of the most hated man in New York.
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Panicked rookie NYPD officer fatally shoots unarmed 28-year-old man in Brooklyn's Pink Houses project
A panicked rookie cop in a pitch-black housing project stairwell killed an unarmed man with a single gunshot to the chest as the officer fumbled around in the darkness with a flashlight and a handgun. The fatal shooting, which officials described as a tragic accident, happened during a vertical patrol late Thursday — months after the superintendent of the Brooklyn development asked NYCHA to fix the stairwell lights.
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Who Will Live In Bloomberg's Micro-Apartments?
She had gotten herself a sub-300-square-foot studio in the Lower East Side, but space was so tight when her cousin came to spend the night he ended up relegated to bunking in the bathroom — with half of his body on the tile floor and half in the flat-bottomed shower. “I had no room for anything. I obviously had no kitchen table.
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See Top Secret Bunker Where 7,000 Americans Will Go in Event of Nuclear Bomb - YouTube
A new book is highlighting some of the top-secret locations in America that could serve as a de facto White House in the event of a nuclear strike. A bunker built into a hollowed out mountain in Colorado is just one of the covert shelters where 7,000 Americans will go to in the event of nuclear annihilation, according to Garrett Graff, the author of 'Raven Rock: The U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself While the Rest of Us Die.'
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Off-duty FDNY captain pulls man from burning car seconds after crash in Georgia
An off-duty FDNY captain rescued a man trapped inside a burning vehicle after he and his wife chanced upon a car wreck in Georgia while on vacation, the couple told the Daily News. Ciro Napolitano, 55, a 30-year FDNY veteran, and his wife Antonieta, 56, were driving north through the Peach State in the left lane on Interstate 95 Tuesday when they found themselves behind a horrific car crash with first responders yet to arrive at the scene, they said.
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EXCLUSIVE: Neighbors witnessed warning signs of abuse long before bruise-covered Zymere Perkins, 6, died in Harlem
Bree Coates recalls the ice cream clutched in Zymere Perkins’ tiny right hand last year, the grin spread across the little boy’s beaming face. Now the 6-year-old is dead, and Coates — a witness to the beatings heaped on the helpless child — wonders if she also bore witness to the doomed child’s few moments of joy.
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Harlem boy, 6, dies after being rushed to the hospital covered in bruises
A 6-year-old Harlem boy covered in bruises died after being rushed to the hospital by his mother, police said Tuesday. The child’s mother, Geraldine Perkins, had been the subject of five child abuse allegations stretching back to 2010, sources said. But she told detectives her muscle-bound boyfriend, Rysheim Smith, beat little Zymere Perkins with a broken broomstick for defecating in an ice bucket, sources said.
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Alleged imam killer Oscar Morel claims innocence from Rikers Island: ‘I like all types of religions’
While police dug deeper for a motive in the execution of a beloved Queens imam and his friend, the accused killer insisted cops had the wrong man locked up. “It wasn’t me,” declared Oscar Morel, 35, in a brief interview Wednesday at the Correction Department’s jail barge in the Bronx. “It wasn’t me.”.
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I am a journalist and former staff reporter for the New York Daily News covering the New York, the NYPD, breaking news and the criminal justice system.

I have interviewed subjects from prisoners - both convicted and awaiting trial - to government officials, including Mayors Michael Bloomberg and Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioners Ray Kelly, Bill Bratton and James O’Neill.

I've broken stories that led to governmental change, including malfeasance within the Administration for Children’s Services that resulted in the suspension and demotion of top officials at the agency in 2016.

In 2014 I broke critical details in the fatal police shooting of Akai Gurley. NYPD Police Office Peter Liang was later suspended, charged and found guilty of second-degree manslaughter.

In addition my reporting on the criminal justice system, I have also covered a myriad of other topics including sports, real estate, New York City Housing Authority, education, weather, politics and the public impact of policies.

My work has also appeared on Inside Edition and been cited on Salon.com and Money.MSN.com.

In 2013, I received the in-depth reporting award from CUNY-Brooklyn College for an enterprise piece on Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s micro-unit apartments initiative. The article exposed why the plan would fail to achieve it’s stated goals of mitigating the need for affordable housing.